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Plenty of new stuff around the house today. Most of it has been built or scrounged to help set up some strongman training days for friends at work. I also made a new set of farmers walk bars because I’m donating my old buckets and some tire sleds to the equipment pool at work.

I had a rough cut red oak 6×6 in the garage that was once destined to become a practice caber. It turned out that length was more of a challenge than weight so it never made it to the rounding off the corners phase. I cut some three foot sections of it, drilled holes and added 1 inch pipe to hold the weights and handles. Unloaded weight is about 42 pounds each.

Yes, that’s camo duct tape. The 6×6 was rough cut from a local sawmill. Getting a splinter in your leg with 90 pounds in each hand would really suck. Duct tape was easier than sanding and the kids picked out camo. They might get painted at a later date, but for now I’m liking the natural look. One was about a pound lighter than the other, so I wrapped the chain around the handle to compensate.

I built two new tire sleds. I found a matched pair of low profile runflats with a thin side wall. I put in a few eyebolts and screwed some medium density fiberboard to the top with drywall screws. I call them Basic Tire Sleds. They’re built for sandbag loading so a simple bungie cord keeps everything in place.

The BTS from CLAF strength systems

The BTS along side it's predecessor.

The thinner sidewall from the low profile runflats makes them a little easier to drag but without the greater adjust-ability of plate loading it may be needed. Going from 50 or 60 pounds to 100 or 120 will be quite a jump.

75 feet of fun.

Here’s a simple tire I made for pulling in hand over hand. This is a new exercise I’m really enjoying. Eventually the rope will get longer and it’ll probably get it’s own wooden top to load weight on. I’d like a thicker rope, but big manila rope is balls expensive.

Finally I found some truly huge tires at a heavy equipment repair place. These should be plenty heavy for a long time to come. The heaviest probably weighs 250 pounds.